Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-06-04

rvv1athlu ----A%A4-D PROMISED 70
- . - - g more to say about the
$50 go 0DV made by the Logan Free
on. II. A. YOnge, the recent
. ~ tinted Democratic Register OF
- irwin Land Office, and Hon. j. Z.
~ ner, Republican member Of Con
Rress from this district, though we think
it hardly necessary to add anything to
what we said in the last HERALD
There is no politics in this matter. The
Freeman's entire grievance consists in
the fact that Mr.. Young has decided
that final proof notices, shall hereafter,
be published in the official paper of the
county, instead Of being scattered out
ell over the country. The Freeman
publishes about one column of criu-
cism of Mr.. YOnge and Congressman
Turner; leaving out the epithets and
hard names he hurls at these gentle
man, his article can be boiled down to
three points, viz:
1st. That Mr. Yonge is under obliga-
tons to Congressman Turner and Tur-
ner is under obligations to the Phillips
burg HERALD, and that is the reason
he (Yongs) decided that all the proof
notices should be published in the
HERALD.
I'd. That YOnge's decision is wrong
and that the Proof Notices should be
published in the paper nearest the land
70 be proved up on.
Sd. The third point stated in his own
words is as follows:
II his Almighty Highues-. Ex-Rebel Register
Aonge, and his Lieutenant f. Jumbo Turner Ex-
haver o. the Bloody Shirt will permit the PEG
pie OF this section 10 take their choice or papers
nearest the land, We viii publish the remaining
proofs free OF charge that home-teuders may
have chance at least equal 70 a Mexican peOn.
Now as to the first point: The facts
are as stated last week. Congressman
Turner being a Republican, had no
voice in the matter Of the appointment
Of democratic official by a democratic
president. The case stood thus: The
decree had gone fourth that Hon. John
Bissen (Republican) had to 60 out and
some democrat 60 in. Capt. Coving-
ton and II. A. Yonge were applicants
for the place. 1t was represented to
the department that Mr.. Yonge was
much the better qualified Of the two for
the place. Secretary Lamar asked Mr..
Turner what he knew of the two men
Mr.. Turner replied that all the inter-
est 1 (TurneD have in the matter is
that the people may have a competent
man in the Registers Office, capable Of
giving them good service. - Mr.. Tur-
ner gave it as his opinion that Yonge
was the better qualified of the two
This is the exteDt of Mr.. Turner's &C
ton in the matter. In a note sent to
the HERALD office, under date of May
9th, 1887, Register Yonge says:
The statement that notices are given, in this
county 10 Republican paper, in consideration
falsehOOd. ] am alone responsible for such rul
all attacks made for that ruling. This matter was
never thought Of, and nothing was said between
Turner and myself regarding the matter"
As to Mr.. Turner being uLder obi
cations to the HERALD: That charge
is also anfounded. This paper did not
favor Mr.. Turner's domination, and
neither we nor our predecessors, have
considered him under any obligation to
the paper. Thus that whole matter
falls to the ground.
I'd, Now as to the second point. Scores
of papers in Kansas and Nebraska were
started in little villages for no other
purpose than to get the proof notices.
Many Of them have no press, no type ,
no printing material of any kind, but
the prOprietors hire them printed in a
distant city or town. They are not
newspapers of general circulation. Mr..
YOnge's decision takes the proof notices
away from these and puts it in the pa
per at the county seat where other legal
printing is done and where every body
will know where to find it. Thus the
proof notices are compelled to come I'M
der the same rule that road notices, de-
inquent tax lists, and other legal print
ing are governed by. The county
treasurer for instance does not publish
the notice Of land sales in paper near
est the land but in the official paper
WAGAE II Ol5AA " DGs 4-4G AACE7A9lIA ,
ruling is sensible is legal, is in accOr-
dance to the spirit of the law Of all the
states, and will stand the test.
Sd, There is no argument in calling
q man hard names. Any blackguard
can hurl epithets and the bigger the
blaekguard the harder epithets he can
use. AS to the Freeman's offer to pub
lish the notices free now, everybody
will readily see why that proposition is
made. Why did not the Freeman offer
TO print them for nothing before the
Register made his rulingP If Register
YOnge had designated the Freeman as
the paper in which all the notices
should be published. does any man,
woman or child in Phillips county, be-
leve that our Logan contemporary
would have published them freeP If
there is such an individual we would
like to see him, her or it.
O'Brien, Member of Parliament and